 Event |
Us/Them
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| Venue |
Rangatira, Q Theatre, Auckland CBD, New Zealand |
| Umbrella Event |
Auckland Arts Festival 2018 |
| First Date |
22 March 2018 |
| Opening Date |
22 March 2018 |
| Last Date |
25 March 2018 |
| Dates Estimated |
No |
| Status |
Professional |
| World Premiere |
No |
| Part of a Tour |
Yes |
| Description |
In 2004 a group of terrorists stormed a school in Beslan, Russia, taking hundreds of children hostage. Three days later, many were left dead. By capturing this terrible event from the unfiltered point of view of children, playwright and director Carly Wijs has created something unexpected and revelatory: a wryly humorous, poignantly matter-of-fact piece of theatre about how the young deal with trauma, and what leads people to do the unthinkable. Strikingly physical in their performance, actors Gytha Parmentier and Roman Van Houtven bring a sense of innocence and levity to harrowing circumstances. Extreme situations are explained using expressive movement and absurd comic observation; choreography and conversation work exhilaratingly in tandem; and they cope with the unspeakable by constructing a world with its own creative logic, defined on a starkly minimalist set using only chalk lines, string and balloons. Nothing short of remarkable, Us/Them is a disarming, profoundly provocative piece of theatre. |
| Description Source |
Programme |
| Primary Genre |
Theatre - Spoken Word
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| Secondary Genre |
Drama
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| Text Nationality |
Belgium
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| Production Nationality |
Belgium
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| Event Status |
Completed
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| Data Source |
| Source |
Description |
| Library Collection |
Auckland Arts Festival 2018 website - archived by the National Library via https://ndhadeliver.natlib.govt.nz/webarchive/wayback/20180329080106/https://www.aucklandfestival.co.nz/ |
| Web |
http://2018.aaf.co.nz/events/us-them-at-q-rangatira-2/index.html |
| Programme |
http://2018.aaf.co.nz/assets/Uploads/UsThem-ShowProgramme-WEB.pdf |
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| Event Identifier |
157339 |
| Dataset |
AusStage |
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